Sentences with phrase «age tale filmed»

Tying for second place (with five nominations apiece) were two definite dramas: Boyhood, Richard Linklater's coming - of - age tale filmed over 12 years, and The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing.

Not exact matches

It is a hamfisted cautionary tale about global warming (which, via the film's scientific hand - waving, produces an ice age), but it also functions as a powerful 9/11 allegory, celebrating the ability of New Yorkers to unify in the face of tragedy.

After some opening images — a shadowy blond figure, complete with trench coat and heels, dumping a corpse off a bridge — that immediately frame its tale of moneyed madness through the greasy lens of B - movie schlock, the film moves to an aging Durst (here renamed David Marks and played by Ryan Gosling) on the witness stand.

«Dolphin Tale 2» is a very well - written film that is good for anyone of any age and I had a very good time watching it.

A remake of the 1974 film of the same name, Death Wish pairs aging action icon Bruce Willis with director Eli Roth (Hostel, The Green Inferno) to bring the classic tale of vigilante justice to modern audiences.

It's a coming - of - age story, but Holmer mostly eschews dialogue and standard storytelling devices; she tells her tale through movements and patterns and the way that she films them.

Granted, this coming - of - age tale is not aiming to be wholly original, but in the end the film only plays to half of its strengths.

Five other feature films complete the Best Picture line - up, including the financial crisis comedy - drama «The Big Short,» Cold War - era drama «Bridge of Spies,» coming - of - age tale «Brooklyn,» harrowing drama «Room,» and journalism docu - drama «Spotlight.»

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

Luckily, when Duncan meets Owen and the other weird employees at the local water park, the ball finally starts rolling and the film turns into a really sweet coming of age tale.

The film finds the actress in a coming - of - age tale set in the English countryside, against the backdrop of World War III, and Ronan described it as «just the most beautiful story.

Guillermo del Toro's fairy tale noir «The Shape of Water» tied with Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age directorial debut «Lady Bird» for best film of the festival.

Sharing honors from the Society Dramatic Authors and Composers, given annually to a French film in Fortnight, were two very different tales of romantic possibility in Paris: Philippe Garrel's black - and - white «Lover for a Day» («L'Amant d'un Jour»), about a 23 - year - old woman who learns that her father is dating a girl her age, and Claire Denis» «Let the Sunshine In» («Un Beau Soleil Intérieur»), starring Juliette Binoche as a divorced artist looking for love in many of the wrong places.

«The latest big - screen iteration of the blockbuster video game isn't a film for the ages, but it's actually pretty good fun; an old - fashioned treasure - island adventure tale gilded in circa - 2018 wokeness (Lara Croft's breasts no longer command a lead supporting role) and anchored by an Oscar - winning actress far more gifted than the story requires.

I liked Driving Lessons, a sharp, engaging, and amusing comedy / drama that does well as a coming - of - age film, family drama, and unlikely friendship tale.

It's absolutely one of the best films of the year; a sensual, moving summer romance coming - of - age tale that is impeccably acted, impeccably shot, and basically just impeccably crafted from head to toe.

Written and directed by Baumbach, the film is described as «the intergenerational tale of adult siblings contending with the influence of their ageing father».

Nightjohn is a PG - 13 Disney movie, but it's also a full - blooded Charles Burnett film: family - friendly fare that doesn't shrink from showing slavery's horrors, an adolescent's coming - of - age tale told with an adult's sense of historical reality and moral complexity.

«Son Of Rambow» (2007) Arguably the best film on this section of the list, «Son Of Rambow,» the impossibly charming coming - of - age tale that marked the second film from music video veteran Garth Jennings, who made his debut with studio picture «The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy,» was the big buy at Sundance 2007, selling to Paramount Vantage for $ 7.5 million.

Luca Guadagnino's gorgeous coming - of - age tale oozes nostalgic melancholy and avoids the cliches in many films about gay love

Lola Crèton made her debut a few years back, aged only 16, in Catherine Breillat «s frustrating fairy - tale «Bluebeard,» but while the film was a bit of a misfire, Crèton's screen presence was clearly going to lead to bigger and better things.

Almost Famous is a mostly fictional tale, but it's often fiction that can reveal the greatest truths: and Cameron Crowe's film is one of the most honest and warm - hearted coming - of - age tales around.

This smart and funny film is a raucous coming - of - age tale about three teenage girls who form a punk band in»80s Stockholm.

Here's a few new movie stills featuring Emma Watson in the upcoming film «My Week with Marilyn» by director Simon Curtis (David Copperfield) and starring Emma Watson (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, The Tale of Despereaux), Kenneth Branagh (Valkyrie, Pirate Radio), Eddie Redmayne (Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Good Shepherd), Dominic Cooper (Captain America: The First Avenger) and Judi Dench (Bond 23, Jane Eyre).

The greatest surprise is that this horror film works deeply as both a scary tale and a coming of age journey for characters on the cusp of adulthood.

Filmed in the twilit hues of the California magic hour, this loosely autobiographical coming - of - age tale marks Gerwig as an artist with equal talent and creative force — originality, spunk and heart — on either side of the camera.

Baseball has been at the foreground of a diverse group of great films, from the classic drama Pride of the Yankees to the screwball comedy Major League, from coming - of - age tale The Sandlot to Disney's own spiritual family dramedy Angels in the Outfield.

The film brings fresh perspective to the genre by focusing on an experience unseen in coming - of - age tales: What high - school first love might be like if...

It's been five years since writer - director Sally Potter's last film — the poignant and powerful teenage girl's coming - of - age tale Ginger & Rosa — and she is back with a wicked vengeance.

Based on a graphic novel and short film by co-directors Pedro Rivero and Alberto Vázquez, Birdboy: The Forgotten Children is a darkly comic, beautiful and haunting tale of coming of age in a world gone to ruin.

Partisan marks the feature directing debut of Ariel Kleiman, who made the short films Young Love and Deeper than Yesterday, and this coming - of - age story looks like a compelling tale.

This particular issue has bedeviled some of the first six Harry Potter films, because in addition to being a coming - of - age serial tale, it's also an unfolding mystery.

The Austin auteur spent a dozen years on the epic tale of one average Texas boy's coming - of - age — and touts the film culture of the state.

Writer / director Rick Famuyiwa («Our Family Wedding») collaborated with the powerhouse production team of Pharrell Williams, Sean Combs and Forest Whitaker (who also serves as the film's narrator) for this hip - hop influenced coming - of - age tale.

Themes of retirement and aging might seem an odd fit for a children's film — and they are — but there's something uniquely universal therein, allowing screenwriters Kiel Murray, Bob Peterson, and Mike Rich to tell a classically Disney tale of mortality without getting into the guts of what it means to get old and die.

In an epic tale that fully deserves every one of its one hundred eighty - eight minutes, «Margaret,» filmed in 2005, tells the story of an adolescent who is emotional to the point of neurosis, a neurosis that proceeds full flower when she observes the sudden, accidental death of a middle - aged woman.

This is a coming - of - age tale as only Philip Roth could craft it, and the thematic complexity and overall ambiguous nature of the film's narrative allows the audience to think rather than be spoon - fed every single beat.

What at first seems like a children's film with an appropriately light plot becomes an entertaining tale for all ages, as certain gags might go over the heads of children, while others are a little disturbing.

If you see one movie this weekend, it should be «Boyhood,» Richard Linklater's 12 - years - in - the - making coming - of - age tale, which has no precedent in film history.

The film premiered at Cannes to a warm reception thanks to its charactorially complex and mysterious tale of an aging actress and her personal assistant which coaxed a pair of stunning performances out of Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart in the leading roles.

Combining a murder mystery with a traditional coming - of - age tale gives the film gravitas and provides a suspenseful element.

Writer - director Rob Meyer and co-writer Luke Matheny's «A Birder's Guider to Everything» likely won't incite a mainstream birding craze, but the pair does deliver a charming coming - of - age tale that'll at least let you enjoy it vicariously through the film's Young Birders Society.

But love isn't all easy in the Sundance indie film First Girl I Loved, where the placement of a high school same - sex romance in the swivelling unpredictability of adolescence makes this coming - of - age tale an emotional spin that attempts to increase its stakes at every turn.

Richard Linklater's 12 - year project, chronicling the filmed - in - real - time tale of young Mason (Ellar Contrane) as he grows up from the age of six to the age of eighteen, has seemingly received just as much praise as it has derision, particularly by critics who were lukewarm on it amongst everyone else's ebullient praise, perhaps out of irritation.

The film is a coming - of - age tale about an overweight and unpopular teen who dresses in pajamas but strikes up an unlikely friendship with his school's vice principal (John C. Reilly).

Though I Kill Giants isn't done any favors by comparisons to A Monster Calls - a film that arguably tackles grief, at least, more head - on and adeptly - Walter and Kelly's adaptation offers a compelling coming - of - age tale that deals with death.

Yet gender diversity in film remains lacking enough that when two people passed out at a recent film - festival screening of Julia Ducournau's cannibalism coming - of - age tale, Raw — much to the director's surprise and dismay — it was not only noteworthy but also a perverse measure of progress.

The filmmaker turned a coming - of - age action film («Hanna») into a fairy tale allegory complete with a wicked witch, and his version of «Anna Karenina» was an audaciously bold and visually striking adaptation of a classical piece of Russian literature.

THE WAY WAY BACK — Also shot in Massachusetts — Marshfield — the film is a sweet, smart, summer coming - of - age tale about 14 year - old Duncan (Liam James) who begins his summer vacation in the way way back of his mother's (Toni Collette) boyfriend's (Steve Carell) station wagon.

Set in Gillan's own hometown of Inverness, the film uses the tragic history of the Scottish Highlands (which has the highest suicide rate in the U.K.) to spin out an intimate coming of age tale, bolstered by Gillan's dark sense of humor and a firm understanding of how to play with narrative conventions.